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«The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.»
«Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
conservatism, conserve, conserved, conserves, conserving, secondhand
«A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed»
«In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth»
«What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.»
«He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
superlatively, that is to say
«Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.»
«He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.»
«The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
clause, cracking, disused, exploring, groping, imminent, nasty, shafting, shafts, shin, shinning, shins, subjunctive, subordinates, subordinate clause, timorous
«You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.»
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